Essays 841 - 870
base on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, officially bringing the United States into World War II. At the time of the surprise attack, howev...
had fulfilled his 1980 campaign pledge to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism" (Past P...
this country after serving in Vietnam. What is even more tragic is that most of them never have recovered from the sights in Viet...
He wanted to get the country moving again in terms of the economy and in other ways as well (Past Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 20...
out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...
to who Eckert has his characters refer to as "the tales of the old people" the meteor was "The Panther -- a powerful spirit passin...
In 7 pages this paper discusses the growth of European socialism from 1890 until 1914 and how it posed a significant challenge to ...
would support the opposite, namely, a "slow, feeble, disorganized attack" (Hughes, 2002). He also explains this strategy based on ...
chose to split the Confederate army into two groups, nonetheless. "Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, while he and Thomas Ston...
who had been defeated not as much by a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play ...
humiliation and the threat of being a cast out of ones own society. Ignatieff addresses the various concepts of nationalism as th...
of Irish counties with English settlers in the hopes that the Irish would adopt the political, social and religion of the English....
be fired (Crossby, 2002). Upon a discovery that the Scots had been making plans with the French he again decided attack wit...
his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...
events of September 11th affected British interests, it would be fair to say that the way in which the attacks on the WTC and the ...
obstacles. Americans have grown accustomed to the status quo" (Nadelmann, 1993, p. 41). The situation is quite different across ...
recourses with which to assure that future attacks on the United States would not be forthcoming, it is necessary to understand ju...
quite awhile. Philosophers of every time period have looked at war and tried to find a theory to explain it (Honderich, 1995). Her...
The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...
modern. It was a time, as mentioned, of great change, socially and politically. It was a time which followed what was assumed to b...
that dragged Englands economy and drained her resources were the many and varied territories she claimed abroad. Faced with the de...
maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...
In five pages this paper examines the reasons behind fighting the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese perspective. Four sources are c...
even falling ill himself (Halsall Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Britannica: Thucydides). During a heated campaign in 424, Thuc...
There were many thousands of Palestinians who were forced to make their home in Jordan after they were run out of their own countr...
In the following paper we examine this assumption, providing historical information concerning the foreign allies, eventually argu...
is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...
of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...
the war" (Heywood, 1998; history.html). This lab was only one division of National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), for "in Jun...